I believe I found you through other Substack writers. I think a previous article (Towards a Better Class Analysis) may have been linked or sent out through someone else. I loved that first article I read by you so much that I immediately decided to support your work and get a subscription. I am happy I did. I think the more re-tweeting is done by journalists supporting each other, the more people like me will get to know who we want to choose our new "news anchors" to be.
I've been thinking a lot about authenticity in America recently. I grew up in the US and other countries. I moved away from the USA ten years ago and haven't looked back. It is a very inauthentic place where authenticity is packaged and sold at a premium. Living overseas is a much more authentic experience because the locals don't know how to be any other way. I wonder if authenticity is making a come back in the US because of the trends in social media. It started with amateurs, then pros who faked big lifestyles, and seems to now be financially rewarding to authentic small creators. But I might be getting fooled. And this may just be an online trend where the outside culture is still as fake and packaged as ever. What is it like now?
Excellent article. Have just read it for a second time and found it deserves to be read multiple times. Not a subject I've seen a lot written about, but a very interesting one.
Enjoyed this article very much. Ditto JL's podcast on authenticity. Reading your article and thinking about the podcast reminded me of the strange experience of inauthenticity I had attending a rodeo last year in Madison Square Garden. The Americana seemed self-consciously pugnacious, and overtly politicized. A finger-in-the-eye to the blue states and the animal rights activists outside. Maybe I should have expected it, I mean what was I looking for, a family friendly down home spectacle in MSG? Spectators seemed to be performing the act of attendance in the Pomo-trad-nostalgia mode Lindsay also mentioned in his podcast. The bull riding and horsemanship though was spectacular. Still I came away with Baudrillard feels. The difference between the spectacle and the hyperreal super-spectacle. Between Merle Haggard and Brooks and Dunn. Between Church and MegaChurch, Barry Goldwater and Reagan, or Reagan and Trump.
...Great article, Jenny. I am going to be sure to have my husband and young teenage daughter also read this piece so that we can discuss at dinner table. So glad I found you through Substack
The Irish are a blessed race, one of my favorite characters is Steven the Irishman from Braveheart. In order to find his equal an Irishman is forced to talk to God.
I believe I found you through other Substack writers. I think a previous article (Towards a Better Class Analysis) may have been linked or sent out through someone else. I loved that first article I read by you so much that I immediately decided to support your work and get a subscription. I am happy I did. I think the more re-tweeting is done by journalists supporting each other, the more people like me will get to know who we want to choose our new "news anchors" to be.
I've been thinking a lot about authenticity in America recently. I grew up in the US and other countries. I moved away from the USA ten years ago and haven't looked back. It is a very inauthentic place where authenticity is packaged and sold at a premium. Living overseas is a much more authentic experience because the locals don't know how to be any other way. I wonder if authenticity is making a come back in the US because of the trends in social media. It started with amateurs, then pros who faked big lifestyles, and seems to now be financially rewarding to authentic small creators. But I might be getting fooled. And this may just be an online trend where the outside culture is still as fake and packaged as ever. What is it like now?
Excellent article. Have just read it for a second time and found it deserves to be read multiple times. Not a subject I've seen a lot written about, but a very interesting one.
Enjoyed this article very much. Ditto JL's podcast on authenticity. Reading your article and thinking about the podcast reminded me of the strange experience of inauthenticity I had attending a rodeo last year in Madison Square Garden. The Americana seemed self-consciously pugnacious, and overtly politicized. A finger-in-the-eye to the blue states and the animal rights activists outside. Maybe I should have expected it, I mean what was I looking for, a family friendly down home spectacle in MSG? Spectators seemed to be performing the act of attendance in the Pomo-trad-nostalgia mode Lindsay also mentioned in his podcast. The bull riding and horsemanship though was spectacular. Still I came away with Baudrillard feels. The difference between the spectacle and the hyperreal super-spectacle. Between Merle Haggard and Brooks and Dunn. Between Church and MegaChurch, Barry Goldwater and Reagan, or Reagan and Trump.
Are they fake penises or fake clitorises?
...Great article, Jenny. I am going to be sure to have my husband and young teenage daughter also read this piece so that we can discuss at dinner table. So glad I found you through Substack
The Irish are a blessed race, one of my favorite characters is Steven the Irishman from Braveheart. In order to find his equal an Irishman is forced to talk to God.